UDC 34.03
In this work, the author focused on the need to conduct an unbiased and objective study, and subsequent analysis of the reform of legislative regulation of public relations during the Nazi military aggression against the Soviet Union. The author attempted to pres ent his own vision of these processes and offer an unbiased and impartial assessment of a set of features, properties and characteristics of the state legislative policy of the designated historical period. In the process of presenting the material, the author especially emphasizes and at the same time draws attention to the fact that, in the analyzed historical period, thanks to newly adopted legislative acts and revision of the current provisions of the pre-war legislation, it was largely possible to implement a set of popular and necessary legislative decisions to reform the domestic legal system. The author concludes that tightening legislative mechanisms during the war was a fully justified measure, since it required society to mobilize all its resources to defeat the enemy. In the future, domestic legislative policy must be formed on the basis of the positive experience of the historical past of the state and at the same time striving to avoid undesirable legal miscalculations and mistakes.
Soviet Union, martial law, special legal regime, legislative policy, improvement of legal regulation, criminalization, mobilization processes, legislative historical experience
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